> not almost as toxic just in the opposite direction.
It’s not toxic to be like “everyone should have the same rights, invading Greenland is stupid, let’s all have healthcare.”
We can compare toxicities accurately, and comparing the cesspool of “thought” that is X to…anything else? Is like comparing Polonium 210 to Tylenol. Sure, they’re both toxic, technically, but there is some critical distinction between them, right?
So we chose growth, and now are trying empire, because of memes about our supposed strength on paper, pushed by unserious “conservatives” who can’t form a cohesive argument about anything?
We stand a good chance of this totally destroying us, because the “technocracy” set actually believe their own Paper Divisions are unstoppable and the legal mind of “stick your fingers in your ears and say NAH NAH NAH” to be unassailable.
What an embarrassing ending to the American story this all is, eh?
Maybe whatever comes next will be more serious and will choose differently.
This; the “originalists” who dress up in wigs and shock of shocks, just so happen to rule contrary to the way things have worked for the last 50 years.
> On the other hand we have federal district court judges in podunk deciding that they have the unilateral ability to stop the president from exercising executive authority
He doesn’t have unlimited executive authority; it makes sense for a judge to be able to determine where that line is. It’s literally their job?
Hopefully this is satire. It would be a shame if we were gifted such deep cultural gifts and we limit them to turn everyone into zombie engineers, convinced of nothing but profit, as we race to the bottom in a colorless world. Boring.
Even if it was meant as satire, I have definitely known a scary number of the people being parodied there. Small, sharp, hard-headed. No poetry in the soul. A person like that just fully doesn’t get the need for college to be a place to become a deep, well-rounded, open-minded person where your understanding of yourself, your fellow man, and the world around you can evolve in leaps and bounds. To the college-as-job-factory folks it is simply a place to install valuable marketplace skills and the student loans are a pure business transaction.
I feel the exact opposite, that we as a society should pay for (or at least heavily subsidize) a broad college education so that we put people on the track to being the best versions of themselves before we release them back into the wild world of civilization. I want to work with people driven by a mission, chat with people who are curious and interesting, buy from artisans who are performing a craft with all their heart, live near people who are considerate and kind, and vote with people who have a strong moral core.
Liberal arts education is not the only path, but I think it’s one of the ways people hone those qualities in themselves.
Ethics? Gruber spent the past decade applauding every Apple mistake; the App Store monopoly, client side scanning, even Liquid Glass.
We didn't get bought out, Daring Fireball did. I have genuinely zero interest in watching him document the fact that Apple's monopoly ignores his demands. The true "hacker ethic group" recognized this decades ago, and stopped supporting Apple long before their ideology synchronized with pedophiles.
It is possible - and even so happens - that from time to time, even a person with whom you vehemently disagree with most things is right about something. As they say, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
We’re one step from harvesting organs from people in rural areas, or hunting them for sport from helicopter, and they’ll cheer as long as “their side” is the one hunting them.
How embarrassing and very sad.
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